6.22.2004

A Can a' Beans

Adam Kotsko is working on a study about fathers that should prove to be pretty interesting. He's looking for lyrics that have to do with fathers so if you know any click over there and help him out. The post is a few posts down due to his production standards. Bianca,you might be able to help him with a few quotes about fathers from women singers but be forewarned, I already quoted Angry Anymore. I'm interested in what this study of Kotsko's is leading up to.

While looking over some lyrics I brushed back some jems from the musical Black Rider which was created by Tom Waits and Robert Wilson who also collaborated on Blood Money which is the musical form of Woyzeck. It's incredible especially if you are famaliar with the original german play. I started to remember the flow I would like my site to have. These lyrics triggered it. Tom waits sings in a raspy drunken old voice for this one.

The prettiest girl
In all the world
Is in a little Spanish town
But I left her for a Bonnie lass
And I told her
I'd see her around
But that Bonnie lass
And her heart of glass
Would not hold a candle

To bumming around
So don't cry for me
For I'm going away
And I'll be back some lucky day

Tell the boys back home
I'm doing just fine
I left my troubles and woe
So sing about me
For I can't come home
I've many more miles to go

Why, there's Miss Kelsey
You taught dance at our school
And old Johnny O'Toole
I'll still beat you at pool
So don't cry for me
For I'm going away
And I'll be back some lucky day

Now when I was a boy
My daddy sat me on his knee
And he told me
He told me many things
And he said son
There's a lot of things in this world
You're gonna have no use for
And when you get blue
And you've lost all your dreams
There's nothin' like a campfire
And a can a' beans

Why, there's Miss Kelsey
She taught dance at our school
And old Johnny O'Toole
I'll still beat you at pool
So don't cry for me
For I'm going away
And I'll be back some lucky day